Boyd Bailey, M.Ac., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac.(NCCAOM)

Boyd Bailey, M.Ac., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac.(NCCAOM) received his Masters
degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in 1997 from the Northwest
Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (now Bastyr University)
in Seattle, WA. Boyd, currently in private practice, has treated
patients with many different health conditions in a variety of
clinical settings. Extensively and eclectically trained in Traditional
Chinese Medicine, Japanese, and Korean acupuncture traditions, Boyd is
also a certified Toyohari® practitioner and proficient in Shonishin
pediatric acupuncture. Since 2009, Boyd has served as the acupuncture
consultant for WakeForest Baptist Health’s Center for Integrative
Medicine. He is co-investigator for an NIH-funded Phase 2 clinical
trial of the effects of acupuncture on menopausal hot flashes and one
of four acupuncturists in this 2 year study. Boyd has worked closely
with both local private practices of OB/GYN and especially with Wake
Forests’ Center for Reproductive Medicine.
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Beth Burke, L.Ac., M.Ac.

Beth Burke, L.Ac., M.Ac.
Beth is a native of Silver Spring, Maryland. She graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and in Economics, where she also was on the varsity swim team. After college she worked in the field of accounting and finance for several years before she decided to make a change. Her interest in Chinese medicine began while studying Tai Chi and Kung Fu at the Hung Tao Choy Mei Academy in Washington, DC. She received her Master of Acupuncture from the Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts, the oldest accredited acupuncture program in the United States. She also received a certificate of Chinese herbal study from the Tai Sophia Institute. She is licensed by the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture. Her Acupuncture and Chinese herbal practice is located at the Spectrum Center for Natural Medicine in downtown Silver Spring. Currently she is also a Chinese herbal supervisor at the program for Chinese herbology at the Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, MD.
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Miles Coleman, RH (AHG)

Miles Coleman, RH (AHG)
Miles is owner of Black Belt Herbs, a graduate of East West School of Herbology, Michael and Leslie Tierra’s school of herbal medicine, and a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild. Miles company, Black Belt Herbs, creates handcrafted herbal pain relief formulas. He founded his own clinic in 2000 and has worked as a herbalist for the past fifteen years. He is a Sifu (teacher) of traditional Chinese martial arts and holds master and teacher ranks in several rare kung fu systems. He is also a Reiki Master/Teacher, qi gong and shiatsu practitioner and studied massage at Ancient Wisdom College of Healing Arts in Council Bluffs, IA. His specialities are sports, martial arts injury and muscle/skeletal problems. Miles considers himself to be a planetary herbalist as he uses herbs and theories from both Chinese and western systems. He is currently developing his own herb courses for the general public and martial arts communities.
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Susan Leopold

Susan Leopold is the current Executive Director of United Plant Savers. She has her Doctorate in Ethnobotany from Antioch New England, her research involved the loss of local plant knowledge in the Bull Run Mountains of Virginia, and the implications from a shift in regards to plant knowledge from a economic, ecological, and social perspective. She has her Masters in Environmental Landscape Design from the Conway School in Conway, Mass. Previously Susan has worked as Executive Director of the Bull Run Mountain Conservatory, as special project manager for the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (land trust), and as a special research librarian, and art photographer at the Oak Spring Garden Library in Upperville Va. She has extensive knowledge on rare botanical books, such as herbals, horticultural, plant explorers, traders, and botanical art in general. She lives in Linden, Virginia, where she raises goats and medicinal herbs.
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Isaias Ramon

Isaias Ramon is a shaman from the Vetoto tribe, located in Colombia's Amazon region. He was trained by his parents and grandparents to be a shaman and healer for his tribe. He speaks 4 Amazonian languages, as well as spanish. In his tribe he healed dermatological conditions, digestive issues, respiratory conditions, and ulcers. Now working in the Colombian capital of Bogota, he works with conditions like infertility and cardiac problems.
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Jeremy Riesefeld, L.Ac., M.Ac.

Jeremy Riesefeld, L.Ac., M.Ac.
Jeremy has a passion for helping people transform their lives and health in ways that are safe, gentle, and sustainable. Since 2004, Jeremy has successfully helped his clients with a wide variety of complaints, ranging from depression and anxiety to chronic pain to PMS to low energy and fatigue. For the past 15 years, he has immersed himself in the study and practice of eastern meditation, spirituality, and philosophy, qigong, tai chi, and yoga. He has studied and practiced a wide range of holistic healing disciplines such as acupuncture, acupressure, nutrition, herbal medicine, and essential oils. He has found that emotions, mental health, and lifestyle choices are keys to the healing process. In 2007, he graduated from the Master’s in Acupuncture program at the Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts in Maryland, and received certification in Chinese Herbal Medicine (660 hours) in 2008. He is licensed to practice acupuncture in Washington, DC and Maryland.
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Keoni Teta, ND, L.Ac.

Keoni Teta, ND, L.Ac.
Keoni is a entrepreneur, naturopathic physician, acupuncturist and expert in the science and application of exercise and nutrition as it relates to hormonal fat loss. He did his undergraduate work at NC State University in biochemisty and chemical engineering. His graduate work was done at NC A&T State University in environmental engineering. His medical training was completed at Bastyr University where he also completed his acupuncture and oriental medicine training. He is a contributing writer for Natural Triad Magazine and The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. Keoni, along with his brother Jade, is a coauthor of The Metabolic Effect Diet. Dr. Teta is also contributing author in the latest edition of The Textbook of Natural Medicine. He is a cofounder of the internationally known fat-loss and lifestyle company Metabolic Effect. Keoni has special interests in longevity and anti-aging medicine, social media, and real estate.
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Lesley Tierra, L. Ac., R. H. AHG

Lesley Tierra, L. Ac., R. H. AHG, is a nationally and California State licensed acupuncturist and herbalist who combines acupuncture with herbal, food and inner growth therapies in her private practice. A professional and Advisory Board member of the American Herbalists Guild, she has studied and used ancient spiritual and shamanic methods along with modern psychotherapeutic techniques for over forty years and co-led women on vision quests for five years. Lesley is author of Healing With the Herbs of Life (Crossing Press, 2003), A Kid’s Herb Book (Robert D. Reed Publishers, 2000), Healing with Chinese Herbs (Crossing Press, 1997), The Herbs of Life (Crossing Press, 1992) and co-author of Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicine Volumes I and II with Michael Tierra (Lotus Press, 1998). She collaborated with Michael to produce the East West Herb Course and has taught throughout the United States and England since 1983. Her latest book, Metaphor-phosis: Transform Your Stories from Pain to Power (Balboa Press, 2012) helps people clear repeating patterns using their inner wisdom and provides a complete toolbox to make your invisible stuff visible so you can transform your life.
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Michael Winn

Michael Winn was two-term National Qigong Association President, with 33 years qigong experience. He did a three year Chinese medicine training with Jeffrey Yuen. He has authored dozens of articles, including the chapter on Medical Qigong for the The Physicians Guide to Alternative and Complementary Medicine. He wrote 7 best-selling books with Mantak Chia, authored 9 Tao Inner Alchemy homestudy courses, taught over 100 weeklong alchemy retreats, led 15 China Dream Trips, and hosts annually (18 years) the West’s largest Taoist summer retreat program near Asheville, North Carolina (June 21 – July 22). www.HealingTaoUSA.com winn.dao@earthlink.net
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Combining Science and Chinese Medicine for Sustainable Weight Loss

January 22, 2013

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We address how lifestyle, diet and herbs can be combined for a sustainable weight loss program. Our focus will emphasize traditional Chinese medicine theories of weight gain, as well as how they can be integrated with western approaches. Our guest is Keoni Teta, a Naturopathic doctor, Acupuncturist, and co-author of the Metabolic Effect (ME). He is co-owner with his brother Jade of the weight loss company The Metabolic Effect that emphasizes a holistic, science-based approach that includes, diet, nutrition and herbs in a biochemical context to maximize weight loss during the resting state. ME focuses on changing the hormonal response to exercise and diet to naturally regulate fat burning, appetite, and mood, thus enhancing motivation to exercise and reducing food cravings. Drawing on Keoni’s unique background in Naturopathic and Chinese medicine, we will explore how traditional Chinese medicine and modern science can both be used to maximize healthy and sustainable weight loss.

Holistic Healing with Herbs and Chinese Medicine

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Holistic Healing with Herbs and Chinese Medicine offers you tools for vitality and health from a 3000 year old healing system, emphasizing how herbs, acupuncture, food and qi gong can be used to treat common chronic and acute health problems. Andres and Michele will guide you to an understanding of Chinese medicine and how it can help them achieve physical and emotional wellbeing. Each week they will present natural solutions for common problems and discuss timely issues of concern to people using these therapies, hosting guests with unique expertise and inviting listeners to share questions and comments. Michele and Andres will integrate their extensive clinical experience as Chinese medicine practitioners into the discussions, sharing examples from their clinical practice. Having spent years studying and searching out experts in Chinese and herbal medicine, Michele and Andres will carefully present findings and suggestions intended to enhance your health.

Michele Collins, RH (AHG), MPH and Andres Vergara, M.Ac., L.Ac.

Michele and Andres are both very passionate about the practice of Chinese medicine and qi gong. They have studied and practiced Chinese medicine for a combined total of over eighteen years. In 2011, they spent six months studying Chinese herbal medicine in a university hospital setting that emphasized the practice of integrated Chinese herbal and allopathic medicine. Michele and Andres both teach and write about Chinese and herbal medicine, such as speaking for the Natural Triad/Wake Forest Integrative Medicine Seminar Series and publishing in the Journal of the American Herbalist Guild.

Michele, a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild (RH) and a Master of Public Health, integrates Chinese, Ayurvedic, and western herbs, nutritional therapy, and qi gong into her practice as an herbalist. She studied with Michael and Leslie Tierra at the East West School of Herbology where she is a certified herbalist. She serves on the board of the North Carolina Herb Association and is a member of the teaching faculty of the Academy of Integrated Medicine.

Andres is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and teacher of qi gong, using solely Chinese herbs in his practice. He received his M.Ac. from Tai Sophia Institute in Maryland. He is currently licensed to practice in North Carolina, but has practiced in both North Carolina and Maryland. He has studied with a variety of well-regarded teachers of Chinese medicine, including Lonnie Jarrett, Dr. Tan, and Bob Flaws.